When Elon Musk Violates Immigration Law It's Fine Though
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🗓️ 1 November 2024
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OA1082 - Donald Trump recently promised that he and House speaker Mike Johnson have a “little secret” about how they are going to win next week’s election. Is he just trolling, or have Republicans identified real vulnerabilities in our federal election system? We assess the legal realities surrounding one particularly doomerist prediction in The Nation to try to understand just how concerned we really should be.
The Washington Post has just revealed that Elon Musk has his own little secret: his numerous past violations of federal immigration law. How much does this matter, and what would happen if ICE received this information about someone who didn’t happen to be the world’s wealthiest person?
Finally, for our dessert course Matt has the scoop on a tasty footnote from this week’s news about how the Librarian of Congress just helped to fix the ice cream machine at your local McDonald’s.
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“That “Little Secret” Between Trump and Johnson? Here’s What It Could Mean,” Elie Mistal The Nation (10/29/2024)
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“Election certification under threat,” Citizens for Responsibility and Ethics in Washington (8/12/2024)
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“Melania Trump modeled in US prior to getting work visa,” AP News (11/4/2016)
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“They Hacked McDonald’s Ice Cream Machines—and Started a Cold War,” Andy Greenberg WIRED (4/20/2021)
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“Exemption to Prohibition on Circumvention of Copyright Protection Systems for Access Control Technologies,” U.S. Copyright Office Docket No. 2023-5 (10/28/2024)
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| 0:00.0 | So just to yes or no, you still do not have a plan. |
| 0:05.0 | I have concepts of a plan. |
| 0:08.0 | That is a damning, that is a damning non-answer. |
| 0:20.0 | I'm not trying to. That is a damning non-answer. |
| 0:26.8 | I'm not trying to make it about myself, Your Honor. |
| 0:30.1 | I'm just trying to show his bias toward the defendant. |
| 0:31.7 | Just don't make it about yourself. |
| 0:36.7 | Something simple as a crack pipe or used crack pipe. |
| 0:41.7 | The rules were that you got going to fact check. |
| 0:46.3 | Hello and welcome to opening arguments. |
| 0:48.0 | This is episode 182. |
| 0:49.0 | I'm your host Thomas Smith. |
| 0:51.1 | That over there is real life lawyer. |
| 0:51.7 | Matt Cameron. |
| 0:52.3 | How you doing? Hold. two, three, four, and release. |
| 1:01.8 | It's terribly unprofessional. You need to manage your stress before we start recording, |
| 1:05.9 | Matt. It's called box breathing. I'd recommend everybody give it a try. Nice four count when you breathe in, |
| 1:13.2 | a four count when you breathe out. It's pretty good. Strong recommend. Does it get rid of the |
| 1:17.0 | fascism? Only in your mind. Then it won't help me. So I breathe. I'm perfectly calm. I open |
| 1:24.7 | my eyes. There's still fascism. It doesn't, it's just, |
| 1:28.3 | I'm calm and there's fascism. That doesn't matter. I don't know. If you haven't tried breathing |
| 1:31.5 | exercises, they go a long way. I'd strong recommend. Well, speaking of going a long way, I don't know |
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